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**chuecaloversvv** · 12-09-2005, 10:40 AM

The USA is the one country on the globe least likely to engage in boycott behaviour. The consumers apparently ignore such campaigns.

American consumers were notorious for ignoring all those "Buy American" campaigns in the 1970's as well.

Britain, Canada and Australia are all notorious for actually delivering on boycotts - and notably, are all still boycotting French wines due to France's nuke tests on the Bikini Islands some 8-10 years ago. French wine imports to those countries fell considerably and has never recovered their dominant market share. It is to be noted that since that boycott was launched, the French have profited from massively increasing their wine exports to the USA to make up for the market losses in those countries supporting the French wine boycott.

Indeed, serving French wine in Canada is still a political statement that you are a rightwinger (supporting France's right to nuke whatever they please).

I've never seen on single statistic that 'proves' that a boycott actually worked in the USA.

12-09-2005, 10:40 AM	#5
chuecaloversvv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 499 Senior Member	The USA is the one country on the globe least likely to engage in boycott behaviour. The consumers apparently ignore such campaigns. American consumers were notorious for ignoring all those "Buy American" campaigns in the 1970's as well. Britain, Canada and Australia are all notorious for actually delivering on boycotts - and notably, are all still boycotting French wines due to France's nuke tests on the Bikini Islands some 8-10 years ago. French wine imports to those countries fell considerably and has never recovered their dominant market share. It is to be noted that since that boycott was launched, the French have profited from massively increasing their wine exports to the USA to make up for the market losses in those countries supporting the French wine boycott. Indeed, serving French wine in Canada is still a political statement that you are a rightwinger (supporting France's right to nuke whatever they please). I've never seen on single statistic that 'proves' that a boycott actually worked in the USA.
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